Molly Bawn (novel)
1878 novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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Molly Bawn is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring Alma Taylor.[1]
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| Author | Margaret Wolfe Hungerford |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publication date | 1878 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
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Molly Bawn, Hungerford's best-known novel, is the story of a frivolous, petulant Irish girl. She is a flirt who arouses her lover's jealousy and naively ignores social conventions. Mrs. Hungerford and this book are mentioned in chapter 18 of James Joyce's Ulysses:
- ...Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford on account of the name I don't like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders...
Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous proverb: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."[2][3][4]
